2019年11月12日 星期二

white elephant, with an eye to




A controversial HK$50 million musical fountain project in Kwun Tong has passed the final hurdle at the Legislative Council, after the government proposed it on three separate occasions.





with an eye to
With a view of, with a plan for.
For example, With an eye to expansion, we'll have to be careful with expenses,
or She always operates with an eye to the future[Late 1300s]Microsoft's $1.2 billion bid on Tuesday for a Norwegian search software company was seen mainly as an effort to add more tools to its lucrative Office products, but was also being done with an eye toward fending off Google, analysts said.

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have an eye to/for the main chance UK
Someone who has an eye to/for the main chance is always ready to use a situation to their own advantage.

(from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
white elephant noun DISAPPROVING
something that has cost a lot of money but has no useful purpose
,白象。近期,時報兩名記者前往河南汝州尋找“白象項目” (white-elephant projects),報導地方政府大肆舉債建造的面子工程。但她們沒料到會遭遇當地如此強烈的反應,包括被警方短暫扣留、遭到官員跟踪與圍困。 White elephant指大而無當、造價昂貴、不實用的東西,我們的記者在“時報內情”專欄中寫道,“汝州有不少白象項目”。


例:

Question for the day:
Would Airbus be better off if it just dropped the A-380 program, or if it kept trying to build what is likely to be an overpriced white elephant?

Spitzer, in Reversal, Is Expected to Approve Freedom Tower, Officials Say
By CHARLES V. BAGLI
With the downtown real estate market improving rapidly, Gov. Eliot Spitzer is expected to abandon his criticism of the Freedom Tower as a looming white elephant.

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